Recent content by RememberMurray

I must admit I laughed a little when I read this thread. There are people in this world who choose to see the glass empty, and people who see, well... When I think of the 2018 season, I think of Morgan taking over at QB and throwing a winning bomb against Indiana. I remember the first Gopher...

The perception: Fleck finds guys that are under the radar and hires them, and they excel here, and then they get hired away for more money. That is certainly true in some cases. Yet Harbaugh, Collins, Simon, Callahan have each been with Fleck for a long time. Sori-Marin is a former player under...

Every year, it's the same question: will we be able to find a comparable replacement for... ... Carter Coughlin? ... John Michael Schmitz? ... Rodney Smith? ... Antoine Winfield Jr.? ... Jordan Howden? ... Mo Ibrahim? ... Daniel Faalele? ... Rashad Bateman? ... Tyler Johnson? ... Tyler Nubin...

If you were making the decision, which coach (of the available ones) would you hire as coach at the U?

Exactly. He needs to find a new source of joy in his life, since Gopher football just ain't doing it for him. Me, I'm having a lot of fun as a Gopher fan. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see 'mediocrity' everywhere I look. I see an enthusiastic, likable team that plays really hard. I...

Fleck's ownership of the Badgers and their fans makes me very, very happy. I can't stop watching this, for example:

Ferentz is the kind of guy who deliberately lies about punt return rules regarding hand signals. But then, he was only lying and obfuscating to protect his star player's reputation, so he had extremely noble intentions.

I understand that this is a projection for the future, but if we look back on 2024 results we can feel pretty good about beating #26 USC and #17 Illinois, as well as giving #6 Penn State and #13 Michigan all they could handle. Gopher football punching above their weight class, perhaps? Also, I...

I was always an admirer of Reusse's talent. A fine writer. I was disappointed in him when he seemed to decide to become an internet troll rather than a sportswriter. We already have plenty of internet trolls, and there are damn few gifted writers. Pat now seems to have realized that mere...

A true beat writer is more of a reporter and less of an editorialist. A columnist is more opinion driven.

Who do you like in the upcoming 2025 game in Kinnick Stadium?

Regarding the highlighted part of the quote: Ummmmm... huh?!? Columnists 'rip' teams all the time. Constantly. So do radio and TV people. Sometimes it seems that's all they do.

Record-wise, Fleck is a good comparison to Leach. Mason? Mmmm... no. Not so much. According to their respective Wiki pages... Fleck's career record is 86-61. By my sometimes shaky arithmetic, that's a winning percentage of .585 (which is in the same ballpark as Leach's)...

This is really, really heartwarming. I love it. The search for Wisconsin's next coach has probably already begun. They change coaches like most people change clothes.

Are you new to Gopher Hole? The opponent is always unbeatable... until the home team beats them. After that, the opponent was obviously terrible. Or the home team was lucky. Or... on and on. It's a Minnesota thing.